This high-level meeting will focus on sharing the perspectives, experiences, and solutions among local government officials and civil society in Central America and Mexico. Although the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection paid focus on the need to deal with integration and management of human mobility, cities are the location where people chose to leave and go to for a better quality of life. There are intrinsic challenges affecting people’s decisions to migrate that are directly tied to how cities perform their work. Similarly, major metropolitan and border cities are the destination in which migrants seek to settle and adapt to a new reality. We are confident that the meeting will play a key role in shaping both debate and policy in the post-pandemic era. 

This forum is part of the Dialogue’s Cities Initiative, which recognizes the critical impact local policy has on daily lives, as well as the important role subnational innovations can play as a catalyst for national policy change. The goal of this new initiative is to bring together mayors and other subnational leaders with diversity of thoughts, perspectives, and experiences from across the Americas and provide a forum for the productive sharing of ideas, challenges, and ultimately solutions to the pressing problems facing cities and towns today.  

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We invite participants to submit questions using the Q&A function in Zoom OR to email questions to meetings@thedialogue.org.

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